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Date: 1/31/2025
Subject: The long awaited February Newsletter - 1 day early
From: MiGO Member Manager


Michigan Geocaching Organization
Newsletter
February 2025
The MiGO site can now be accessed via a phone app.
 
Look for Club Express in the app store for either Android or iPhone
Volunteer Position Open
GeoTour Logistics Manager
  • Hider Liaison
  • Monitor GT traffic, DNF and Needs Maint logs and message traffic
  • Monitor/Maintain Hider message forum
  • Respond and help finders that message through email or GC
  • Attend calls with DNR if possible.  
While most of these tasks require regular daily monitoring, the time commitment once a tour goes live is not generally overly burdensome.  We may consider co-managers as well to limit time commitment. 
We have a detailed job description for those with interest.  Contact member.manager@mi-geocaching.org to inquire.
 
Winter Social 2025 
 
 
 
February 22, 2025
 
The main event will be hosted at 
 

First Evangelical Covenant Church

1933 Tremont Blvd NW, Grand Rapids 49504
 
 
Individual coins and Pathtags are for sale in the MiGO store wile quantities last. 
 
Bowling with a FOOTBALL...Say what?
 
Pre-purchase your spot by February 19th Noon
 
Yes, that is right.  mkettle is hosting an event as part of Winter Social weekend at the Fowling Warehouse - Grand Rapids on Thursday February 20th at 5:30 PM.  The event will be a flash mob in the parking area; the activity inside requires pre-payment of $15 to participate.  Only paid participants can enter.
 
Visit the MiGO store to purchase your Fowling activity. 
  Winter Social side events
 
   
  •   GCB18J5:  MiGO Winter Social 2025 - Fowling  Thursday 2/20  5:30 Flash Mob /  6:00 - 8:00 for paid players
  • GCAVZ3R:  2025 Winter Social Lasso Community Lunch  Friday 2/21  11:00am - 1:00pm
  •   GCAWJ4A: World of Caching meets World of Winter  Friday evening   6:00-6:30 PM then explore on your own
  •   GCB1YJN: MiGO Winter Social 2025 Send Off  Sunday 2/23 8:30-9:30 am
Camp MiGO Ambassador packages are available in the MiGO store 
We call these our Camp Counselor Package
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If you want to help spread the word, create excitement, get a cool shirt and a specially designed Chris Mackey coin visit the store to order yours today.
 
ONLY AVAILABLE UNTIL FEBRUARY 28TH
CC Coin
Camp MiGO Group camping block
at Waterloo Recreation Area - Portage Lake Campground
 
MiGO has secured a group block.
 
MIGeoCache2025
 
CALL The DNR Reservation Center at 1- 800-447-2757. Give the reservation specialist the block code above.  The specialist will walk you through the process.  Please review the campground map for sites that you may be interested in before calling to make things go faster.  
 
Reservations can be done online if you already have a MI-DNR account, however calling seems to be the quickest and easiest option. 
 
Coming Soon
 
The Camp MiGO side events will start publishing this month!
 
Swag packages to be released to pre-order soon as well. 
Camp MiGO 2025
 
 
WE ARE OFFICIALLY A BLOCK PARTY! 
 
 
 
MiGO Event Page
 
For 2025 ONLY the event is being moved to Waterloo State Recreation area and the date is being moved to the first weekend in August with the main event on August 2, 2025 and other events and activities being planned for Wed-Friday. 
 
Why the change?  Sleepy Hollow will have campground closures next summer to rebuild the bathroom/shower facilities.  Waterloo has adequate cellular coverage and lots of space for games and caches.   Our theme is Tropical and our tag line is Get Lei'd in Michigan.  
 
 
The committee is working on some pretty cool games and activities.  The state park opens camp sites for booking 6 months out.    The organizers will be residing in the Portage Lake Campground. 
Next Challenge
The committee is taking a break until after Winter Social as most of the challenge committee members do double or triple duty on other committees 
Michigan GeoTours and GeoTrails
GT2.0

Michigan State Parks Centennial Geotour 

(In conjunction with the Michigan DNR)

 

This tour is now in the rear view mirror.  MiGO and the DNR are busy working on a new tour launching in the spring. 

 
Thank you to all the organizers, hiders, sponsors and finders for making this one of  the most highly favorited GeoTours

Michigan Waterway Adventure Lab Project 

(in conjunction with the Michigan DNR)

 

Earn up to 4 Pathtags and 1 Coin if all ALs are completed

 
 
 
 
 
Above are renderings for the New Geotours.  The metal is not yet finalized, but the design is set.  
 
The photo on the left shows the coin without the inserts.  The photo on the right with the inserts
 
Two versions of the coin will be sold in the MiGO store;  supporter coin without inserts and a cacher coin that will come with one insert and the other 3 are earned by completing the three regions.   
 

Hiker Dude Geoart

 

Earn a special pathtags from MiGO

 
 
 
 
83 County Pin
 
Have you cached (1 cache) in all 83 counties? MiGO has a non-trackable pin available to members.  Find information in the Premium Challenges drop down on the MiGO website. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Michigan County Grid Challenge
A really BIG Challenge for everyone!  This is not a contest.  Everyone can qualify for a reward, not to mention bragging rights! 
The challenge is a multi-year commitment by the MiGO Challenge Committee, EC and Board.  Can you cover half of the state (Bronze), three quarters of the state (Silver) or the entire state, (Gold), finding an assortment of geocache types in 42, 63 or 83 counties.  Who will top the leaderboard out of the gate?  Who will be the first to claim a prize?  Who will be first to reach for the Gold?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MiGO's goal is to promote the sport of geocaching, an appreciation of the outdoors, and good environmental stewardship, through cooperative efforts with Michigan geocachers and land management officials.
 
 
MiGO encourages members to submit articles for our newsletter.  Submissions should be related to caching or the MiGO community and can include write ups on specific caches or events, a story about a caching experience, a tribute to another cacher, past or present, a write up about your trip to a past Mega or even caching tips.
 
 
Please use this link to submit your content for consideration: Newsletter Submission     
On January 1 this year we all enjoyed ourselves at another successful HNY event.  As usual, the church put out a nice buffet breakfast for us and the event planners had several caches publish for our Geocaching enjoyment.
 
Pee-paw + Mee-maw won the grand prize of an electric bike, and everyone else had a chance to win one of the several other prizes in the raffle.
 
Andrea, aka Liskiss, was very happy with the prize she claimed from the raffle table.
 
 
 
HNY is an annual event held on New Years Day In Warren MI and hosted by gsix5666
 
 
Story submitted by Phyllis of MrandMrsMan
 
Photo Credit: GDPunkgirl73
Photo Credit:  PROBOB
Promote MiGO!
 
We encourage any of our members to use our graphics on their cache pages
 
 
Event Calendar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Your 2024 MiGO Leadership Team

 
 

Board Of Directors

 

  Chad Woltemath - President (Paddling Pirates)

  Steve Bassette (Remspec)

  Stephen D. Fritz (beenhere)

  William Morehouse (GHBuccaneers)

  Kathy Seedorff (pairomedicchick)

 

 

Regional Vice Presidents

 

                Karin Freward - UP (theworldisoutthere)

                Melodee Bourdeau - NL (Ypsimom)

                Sander Owens - SW (CynicalHipster)

                Grace VanCamp - SE (Grayseelou)

                Joel Wilkins - 5th (iatsamedic
 Executive Committee
 

Peter J. Hoyt - President (kzooOtters)

Dan Cable - Vice President (MrandMrsMan)

Robb Lamer - Secretary (CCSquire)

Lynn Johnson - Treasurer (LynnGeoGin (LGG))

Jodi Spalding - Compliance Officer (LiteOnCache)

Sarah Johnson - Member at Large (Sarahjo27)

Laura Lisiscki - Member at Large (llski)

Benjamin Zhang - Webmaster (Oneforfortytwo)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Contact information available via the Leadership Biographies link above
Please note:  Some links might require you to be a MiGO member and be logged in to see content.  
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